Today a weak shortwave crosses the Sierra Crest / Western Great Basin and brings just enough moisture to support isolated, high based convection over Mammoth and the Crest. Other than that, mostly uneventful weather for our Forecast Area this week.
Riley Gold Corp. is pleased to announce Mr. Paul Dobak has joined Riley Gold as a member of the technical advisory committee relative to its Nevada-based exploration including the Company s.
The latest weather in the Pacific Northwest shows that a strong front can bring cooler temperatures on Wednesday, with a chance of rain in California. The chilly weather can also spread to portions of the Northern Rockies and Great Basin. Read here.
The southern Cascadia forearc undergoes a three-stage tectonic evolution, each stage involving different combinations of tectonic drivers, that produce differences in the upper-plate deformation style. These drivers include subduction, the northward migration of the Mendocino triple junction (MTJ) and associated thickening and thinning related to the Mendocino Crustal Conveyor (MCC) effect, and the NNW translation of the Sierra Nevada-Great Valley (SNGV) block. We combine geodetic data, plate reconstructions, seismic tomography and topographic observations to determine how the southern Cascadia upper plate is deforming in response to the combined effects of subduction and NNW-directed (MCC- and SNGV-related) tectonic processes. The location of the terrane boundaries between the relatively weak Franciscan complex and the stronger KMP and SNGV block has been a key control on the style of upper-plate deformation in the southern Cascadia forearc since the mid-Miocene. At ~15 Ma, present-da